Worth the Weight

I keep a pair of 5-pound weights in my sewing room. I place one behind my sewing machine foot pedal to keep it from sliding away. I use the second one as a weight on larger pieces of fabric to keep the fabric from falling off the table when I'm rotary cutting.

-Sue Schaefer

Fishers, Indiana

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